Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 52249

Prisoners' Release: Electronic Tagging

Tabled: 14 May 2025
Answered: 20 May 2025
Named Day

Question

Robert Jenrick

Reform UKNewark

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders released on licence were not tagged in accordance with their licence conditions in the last 12 months for which data is available; and what proportion of that total were due to (a) equipment sh

Answer

Sir Nicholas Dakin
The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost by manually going through each individual’s record on the Electronic Monitoring (EM) supplier’s and probation service’s systems where this detail is recorded.